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This is episode 23 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you move better in the gym and in life, decrease your body's aches and pains, and help you reach your true athletic potential.

Today, we're going to continue our previous topic on hip pain when lifting. Now, a few episodes back, I talked about how you can easily screen

your groin pain. This is one of the most common forms of hip pain that we have as weightlifters,

powerlifters, and crossfitters. Now, I shared some simple tests that you can easily do on

home or at home with yourself or with a friend to determine if you're experiencing either a hip flexor

strain, a hip impingement, or an adductor strain, which is commonly referred to as just a

groin string.

Now, I want to kickstart the episodes on fixing these injuries by going over hip impingements.

Now, if you've ever experienced a hip impingement, also called FAAI or

formal acetabular impingement, it's an injury that feels like a pinch on the front side of your

hip, usually when you move into a deep squat. Now, this is definitely something that I've dealt

with before in my past as a weightlifter. So as we go through today's content, I will try to

interject a few of my personal experiences with this injury that I found helpful in the rehab process.

So let's start by talking about why hip impingements occur. So I guess we'll call this

injury anatomy 101 for hip impingements.

As you squat, your femur rotates inside the hip joint.

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